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Martin I. v. George V. But last week the world moved closer all the same. Across the channel, the Devon County Council had sent off a letter to Her Majesty's Boundary Commission urging its claims on Lundy. For one thing, argued the council, if ever a crime were committed on the island, the jurisdiction of the Devon police might "be called into question. It would therefore be desirable to tidy up this point." This sort of tidying up is just what the Lundyites abhor; it was even worse than that dark episode back...
...Iraqi party that supports Kassem's home and foreign policies without giving allegiance either to Cairo or to Moscow is the National Democratic Party. Since last summer the National Democrats have been fighting a fierce battle with the Communists for the loyalties of Iraqi farmers. The Communists won the first skirmish by getting a Redlined onetime hospital orderly elected to the presidency of the National Federation of Peasants' Associations. But the farmers thereupon deserted the Peasants Federation. Last week, in defiance of the Federation, the National Democrats led more than 100,000 Iraqi farmers and peasants past...
...Belgian Congo, young King Baudouin arrived on a hastily planned flight from Brussels to see for himself what could be salvaged from Belgium's tattered colonial policy. Until last week Minister of the Congo Auguste de Schrijver clung fiercely to the line that the Belgian Congo Africans must be content with local self-rule now, with a gradual transition to independence in 1964. His plans collapsed when Joseph Kasavubu's big Abako Party and other native groups announced a boycott of territorial elections, the first step in De Schrijver's plan for a slow evolution. As nervous...
South West Africa is a big (318,000 sq. mi.), largely treeless land that once belonged to imperial Germany and now has the unhappy distinction of being the last of the League of Nations mandates. Other such territories are either free or have been placed under U.N. trusteeship; but the adjoining Union of South Africa goes blandly on ruling its old mandate as if it were a permanent province...
...Only last month, having for the eighth time condemned the Union for its drastic racial policies, the U.N. General Assembly called on it to begin talks to put South West Africa under the U.N. The Union was piously proclaiming that it was just this kind of "interference" that was to blame for the bloody outbursts that had just been quelled in the South West Africa capital of Windhoek...